Thailand has had 22 coups, and could be heading toward a 23rd

Thailand’s Constitutional Court suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra over ethics violations on July 1, as a weekslong border spat with Cambodia roils fears of a coup d’état. Duncan McCargo, President’s Chair in Global Affairs at NTU, says that among younger generations, calls for military reform have been growing. “There is a big generational divide in Thailand,” he says. “Younger voters ... lean towards the [opposition] People’s Party and are deeply critical of the military and the status quo.”

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